Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The muse, she is a fickle mistress. And whether you're writing blog posts or songs or long-form fiction or technical manuals, sometimes you just can't seem to make the words fit together.

More than anything, I think that's what National Novel Writing Month is about. It's about pushing through that wall that sometimes forms between you and inspiration. It's about committing not so much to the timeframe, but to those 50,000 words.

And that's a lot of goddamn words.

This show is for all the writers out there, but it's also for the readers. It's all about authors and books and writing and creativity, and all the myriad of amazing forms they take.

Track 1: Metaforce – "Writer's Block"
As you can tell from the lack of updates over the past couple of weeks, I am currently suffering from a bit of the ol' writer's blockage myself. Ere go this track seemed a proper starter.

Z's 1st interlude: "Help those of you participating in this month's National Novel Writing Month challenge over that final hump."
Big up to all my NaNoWriMoers!

Track 8: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets dialog / Danny Dementor – "Death (Adolescent Mix)"
And I would characterize this as one of the best WRock songs of all time.

Z's 2nd interlude: "But that's also this vocation's drawback."
Another proposed title for this ep. was simply "Writing is Hard." Oddly, while calling oneself a writer is almost effortless, living up to that moniker is significantly more problematic.

Track 10: TwiRockett Music – "Be Safe"
I entertained the notion of including a number of different Twi Rock songs, but in the end this one won out because it has such a similar feel to the follow-up track.

Track 11: NeverEnding Story dialog / Limahl – "NeverEnding Story"
This song's inclusion may seem a tad counterintuitive, but NeverEnding Story is a fine piece of nerd cinema, so I thought it fit.

I'll go on record as saying that this probably isn't gonna be one my most popular episodes. It alternates at times between harsh metal and ultra-mellow pop fluff, but, in all honesty, that was kind of the point. The creative process is a lot of things, but above all else it is uneven. Messy even.

I reckon that made for sort of a bumpy musical ride, but I actually think it came together pretty well. Here's hoping you think the same.

I think the funniest book title I've ever seen was titled, "Fondling your Muse".http://www.amazon.com/Fondling-Your-Muse-Infallible-Published/dp/1582973482/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259172579&sr=1-1My gf and I had a huge chuckle at that one.

I dreamed my wife was a Muse of the mythic genre, and but she was someone Else's muse, a drunken b'tard of a writer who abused her, and i arranged for him to die to free her of his tyranny. And then had to hide my crime whilst keeping my love in health by becoming a writer, for she needed to BE "musing" to stay alive and in my plane of existence. there were closing credits. I think JJAbrams produced.